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What exactly is it you dislike about Windows?
I ran Win 95 for six years. The only complaint I had with it was that I had to remove as many M$ apps as I could in order to get it to work right. I ditched Outlook Express, M$ Office, quit using Internet Explorer, and replaced these with Star Office, Pegasus, and Netscape. Once I did this, I no longer had those BSODs or had to give the three finger salute. Rather odd that the OS ran third party apps better than its own native apps.
Be that as it may, I never saw any reason to change it. Win 98, 2000, ME, NT: nothing there that convinced me that they were any better than Win 95. Also, still using the rig that originally had Win 95 on it (Dell OptiPlex GXa). It still runs perfectly and has never given me any trouble. It wasn't till this spring that I ever gave a thought to changing. That's when I read that His Gatesness was pulling the plug on Win 95: no more tech support. This means that there won't be any more apps being written for it. I could write my own Win 95 apps, and have no one to share them with (or sell them to). I thought that I'd do like everyone else: get a new system with this new thing: Windows XP. Then I heard about WPA. I don't like the "All your data are belong to us" aspect of this. I *really* resent the fact that they are treating me, a loyal, willing, and up till then satisfied customer, like a criminal. If that's the way they're going to treat me, then "Fuck 'em". That's when I decided to go Linux.
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Last time I checked, it had better hardware support and drivers backing it up than any other OS - which means if you have recent hardware
and want to take full advantage of it, you have to use Winbloze.
The *only* hardware Linux couldn't work with was the Lucent Technologies WinModem. That's all I had to replace. On quite a few tech forums, I'm reading a *lot* more complaints about unsupported hardware, and missing drivers, from those who've installed Win XP than I'm reading from users of any other OS.
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If you care a lot about games, you will have to use Winbloze
I don't give a rat's ass about games.
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If you're just a standard-nobody user, forget Linux! It's a hassle to set up most of the time, and you won't like it any more than Windows. If you want the LEAST hassle, then just use
windows! If you want a stable as hell OS, use Linux. If you're not willing to put in hours of time learning it, don't even BOTHER.
What bullshit! Mandrake installed with *no* trouble on this six year old Dell, with 32MB of memory, 2.0GB hard drive, Pentium II - and all the original hardware. With the KDE desktop, Mandrake is *no* more difficult to use than Win 95. Even those old UNIX standbys, Vi and EMACS, that most folks swear at, not by, have GUI frontends that make them no more difficult to use than "Wordpad". At least Mandrake comes with *excellent* documentation; and that's a helluva lot more than Windows. Hell, I had to figure out 90% of it on my own! You've seen that late night info-mercial where that dude is selling those CDs that teach you how to use Windows? He'd be broke and sleeping in a park somewhere if he tried to make a living selling CDs that taught Mandrake users how to use Mandrake! (Probably why he doesn't do it!
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